Field Visit
Date 27 August 1908
Event ID 1088393
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
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89. Fort, Coldingham Loch.
This enclosure (fig. 51) is situated about ½ mile south of the signal station on St Abb's Head, at an elevation of some 250 feet above sea-level, and occupies the northeast end of a rocky knoll which rises to a height of some 40 feet from a cultivated field. Itis enclosed by a single rampart of earth and stone, following on three sides the contour and crossing the summit on the fourth. It is oval in form, measuring from crest to crest of rampart 178 feet by 90 feet, and has its entrance from the south-east. To the left of the entrance the rampart is about 4 feet in height above the level of the interior. On the steep slope at the north end are two conspicuous terraces 9 feet wide. There are visible in the interior several somewhat indefinite foundations, and apparently a circular one on the right of the entrance and another nearer the centre. There are also a number of mounds and hollows of indeterminate character outside on the slope from the south-east, probably due to quarrying.
See Antiquities, xxix. p. 172 (plan).
RCAHMS 1915, visited 27th August 1908.
OS Map: Ber., v. NE. and vi. NW.
